The woman's eyes widened. "Brother, did he run off?"
The man blinked. "Run?"
He'd always figured that even if the monk got away, his temple wouldn't. It had never occurred to him that the man might actually flee.
"Boss? Boss?"
"Are you dead? Get out here!"
The man shouted.
The teahouse was silent. No answer came.
The siblings had a bad feeling.
When they reached the kitchen, they discovered Li Ye had left long ago.
There wasn't even a trace of him.
"Good grief! The monk got away, and he even abandoned his temple!"
"What a miserable 'monk.' Business must have been terrible."
The woman cried out that they'd been swindled.
She figured the steaming leftover tea and everything else in the teahouse had been deliberately left out by Li Ye as a smokescreen.
He'd faked a thriving business.
The siblings were furious.
They'd just arrived and already been fleeced, and in the end they hadn't even gotten what they'd paid for.
Outrageous.
This wasn't just a crooked, black-hearted merchant. It was outright fraud.
"I'm so mad!"
The woman planted her hands on her hips. "I've never seen such a shameless 'monk.' He was even willing to abandon his 'temple.'"
"What else wouldn't a man like that do?"
She muttered to herself, quietly classifying Li Ye as the most dangerous kind of person: one with no moral bottom line.
Yes, Li Ye had run off with the fortune of twenty Low Grade Star Medicines.
He'd been planning to leave anyway. The Time Furnace was too powerful, and he couldn't do anything about it for now, so he could only give up.
The siblings had come to him on their own, mistaking him for the teahouse owner. That was how Li Ye had turned their misunderstanding to his advantage.
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